Reinforced necktie-shield.



No. 732,537. PATENTBD JUNE 30, 1903.

G. PLASKAMP.

REINFORCED NBGKTIE SHIELD.

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UNITED STATES Patented June 30,1903.

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ASSIGNMENTS, TO ADOLPH HOLLANDER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

REINFORCED NECKTlE-SHIELD.

SPECIFICATION formingpart Of Letters Patent No. 7 32,537, dated June 30,1903.

Application filed March 27, 1903.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GERTRUDE FLASKAMP, a subject of the German Emperor,and a resident of Hoboken, in the county of Hudson and State of NewJersey, have invented a new; and Improved Reinforced Necktie-Shield, of

The invention consists of novel features and.

parts and combinations of the same, as will be more fully describedhereinafter and then pointed out in the claim.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in theaccompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in whichsimilar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all theviews. 7

Figure 1 is a rear face view of the improvement, showing the bowattached to the shield. Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional plan view of theimprovement on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1, the bow being omitted; and Fig. 3is a rear sectional elevation of thebutton-clasp and thereinforcing-strip, the section being on the line '8 3 of Fig. 2..

The shield A, of pasteboard or other material, covered with a suitablefabric, supports a bow B in the usual manner, and 011 the said shield A,preferably at the rear face thereof, is secured a reinforcing-strip 0,made of sheet metal or the like and provided with integral struck-upprongs G, forced into the material in a curved direction, as plainlyindicated in Fig. 2, to securely fasten the reinforcing-strip O to theshield A. The prongs O are arranged in clusters, which are welldistributed over the ends of the strip to insure not only a firmadhesion of the strip on theshield, but also to snugly fit the strip tothe face of the shield to conform to the curvature of the shield, asplainly indicated in Fig. 2.

A button-clasp D for engaging a collarbutton on the front of theneckband of a Serial No. 149,822. (No model.)

shirt is attached to the shield G to project from the rear face thereofin a rearward direction, and this button-clasp is preferably made from asingle piece of spring-wire bent to form jaws D .D, open at the bottomand terminating at their upper ends in doubled-up portions D extendingthrough an aperture 0 in the shield, to the inner or front face thereof,and the lower ends of the jaws D terminate in transversely-disposed Ushaped members D the rear ends of which pass through apertures G in thestrip 0 to terminate in the end members D lying on the front face of thestrip between the latter and the shield Aand spaced from the doubled-upportions D so that the button-clasp is se curely held in position on thereinforcingstrip.

It is understood that by the arrangement described the jaws D are heldspaced from the rear face of the strip 0 to leave room for the head ofthe button, and the jaws D are yieldin gly mounted to allow readyattachment of the button-clasp to the collar-button.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that thereinforcing-strip O is securely fastened to the shield to conform to thecurvature thereof and to stiffen the shield, and a firm support isproduced for the buttonclasp. I

Having thus described my invention, 1 I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent A reinforcednecktie-shield, comprising a shield for supporting'the bow of a necktie,a reinforcing-strip having a plurality of inte gral prongs, distributedover the ends of said reinforcing-strip and curved outwardly into thebody of said shield, a button-clasp formed from a piece of spring-wire,the central-portion of said wire being bent into an extended loop havingparallel sides in, close proximity to each other, said clasp beingsecured at its center and ends to said strip, said extended loop passingthrough a perforation at the upper side of the strip and extendingdownwardly against the rear side thereof to a point near the lower edgeof said strip, said clasp being provided with button-clamping jawsextending downwardly from the aforesaid perforation at the upper side ofthe strip, then upwardly and downwardly again to pass throughperforations near the bottom of the In testimony whereof I have signedmy name to this specification in the presence of strip with theirterminals extending upwardly two s11 bseribing witnesses. in engagementwith the rear side of said strip to near the top thereof, whereby thestrip is securely clamped and held between the parts of thebutton-clasp.

GERTRUDE FLASKAMP. lVitnesses:

THEO. G. Hosrnn, EVERARD BOLTON MARSHALL.

